FIFA 13

[Scutch]

Revels I'm defiantly beating you at this one.

Fo'sho.

Wow. Defiantly too. That's with a purpose.

 

[AK]

Wow. Defiantly too. That's with a purpose.

And you x

 

[jonzz]

I never got into that Ultimate Team, I only ever played online on Fifa 12 and got bored when I won league 1 online. Might try UT out this time though.

 

[Mr Pants]

Will download the demo later. I find I get bored too easily on these games. Probably buy it anyway.

 

[Revels]

Revels I'm defiantly beating you at this one.

Fo'sho.

Oh. You're going to splash out and get the current version are you? You craaaaaaaaaazy!!

 

[AK]

Already got it preordered sweet cheeks.

 

[Revels]

Are you going to play Ultimate Team?

 

[AK]

No, I don't have time for that crap.

Standard teams, mano-a-mano.

 

[Scutch]

Demo now up on PC and probably XBL.

 

[Mr Pants]

Demo is supposed to be on XBL between 10-2.

 

[Scutch]

Nice little goal here:

 

[Chapppers11]

An interception at 0:05 could have prevented that...

 

[Revels]

An interception at 0:05 could have prevented that...

Lol. All these videos are against people who can't defend.

I want to get all Gary Neville and slow things down and write on the screen.

 

[Scutch]

That's against the CPU on the demo.

 

[Revels]

I hate playing the computer. All it does is hold the ball and pass sideways.

Online ftw.

 

[AK]

I am the computer.

 

[Scutch]

I hate playing the computer. All it does is hold the ball and pass sideways.

Online ftw.

AI has been improved this year apparently. Career Mode is supposed to be really good. But yeah, offline against mates is ace. Might even venture onto online this time. Oh you guys

 

[Chapppers11]

Lol. All these videos are against people who can't defend.

I want to get all Gary Neville and slow things down and write on the screen.

I think a counter-attack was on the cards, possibly even a goal.

We could never know for certain though.

 

[Revels]

AI has been improved this year apparently. Career Mode is supposed to be really good. But yeah, offline against mates is ace. Might even venture onto online this time. Oh you guys

Start an Ultimate Team, Scutchio.

None of this "Everyone Barca/Real" shizzle.

 

[Scutch]

Few initial demo comments:

Just played fifa13 demo on pc. Absolute joy on slow/manual...

You can definately feel the difference between the likes of David Silva and Yaya Touré.

Silva is the little nifty, technical player that have alot of flair in his play.

And Yaya more heavier and feels alot more like that working machine you need in the middle of the field

Ok some quick impressions.

- First touch control, more noticeable on AI than on my players, but it's there. Not as pronounced as I hoped it would be though, but these are top teams and seems to be worse with less skilled players, so I guess it's good enough.

- Graphically the game looks better than FIFA 12. You guys will be in for a surprise if you think Xbox/PS3 looks good - PC version is where it's at with 4xAA and high settings it blows consoles out of the water and has been since last year. Nice surprise is that I think finally I won't have to mess around with the LOD tweaker. Definitely an improvement over last year, if only slightly. I think higher resolution shadows and higher player LODs are "responsible" for this. Very smooth gameplay. Well, I expect no less on a 6-core cpu with a GTX680.

- One thing you can really notice is Attacking AI. Really helps you when the players FINALLY make the runs into space and play more intelligently. This is my favorite feature so far.

- The impact engine is better.

So far so good. Definitely don't regret my $40 pre-order.

Another nice little feature is that the crowd reacts when you are closing in on the box.

Played a through-ball too Milner and the crowd just went nuts.. And then I missed it and they won't "Oooooooooow..."

FCKING AWESOME!

Another thing I noticed is there is a third commentator, which tells you about the player's injury, if someone got injured. That's brilliant. You can also see 2-3 subs stretching on the sidelines. I've never seen it on those youtube videos for some reason. That's nice.

 

[AK]

You need to pay for UT don't you?

 

[Scutch]

You need to pay for UT don't you?

No, but if you pre-order the Ltd Edition one, you get up to 15 packs free (well, I say free, it's £15 worth anyway for what you pay extra for the Ltd Edition).

 

[AK]

Not doing Ltd edition.

Can I play UT with the normal version for free? Might do it then.

 

[Revels]

It's free. You can pay for packs if you want to but you don't have to.

Ultimate Edition you get 24 free packs (1 a week for 24 weeks) and you get a few free packs to get you started when you join.

You get coins for winning games and then you can buy more/better players.

I love it. Definitely kept me interested as I find it boring playing by myself (lol) otherwise. Plus there's an UT iOS app this year.

 

[Scutch]

24 packs is it? Hmm. I didn't bother with that as I don't care much for UT.

But it's only £6 more on Shopto for the Ltd Edition...

 

[jonzz]

You have to buy packs to get good players though AK.

I'm guessing all you guys are on Xbox?

 

[Revels]

You don't have to. It's rare to find the top players in packs anyway. You can just win games/trade up and save to get more players.

24 packs is it? Hmm. I didn't bother with that as I don't care much for UT.

But it's only £6 more on Shopto for the Ltd Edition...

Amazon is where I did mine. Plus you get 10,000 EA Points for buying other stuff.

 

[AK]

Might give it a bash then. See what happens.

 

[Scutch]

You don't have to. It's rare to find the top players in packs anyway. You can just win games/trade up and save to get more players.



Amazon is where I did mine. Plus you get 10,000 EA Points for buying other stuff.

Yeah, I just mentioned Shopto because they're the cheapest. I too went with Amazon due to the 10k points.

 

[Jay.S]

The thing with UT is unless you spend money it takes a while to get a decent team.

The kids of today spend a fortune on it and have amazing teams and they are hard to beat. Im not a UT team fan but i will buy the Ltd edition version and give it another go.

Cant wait to try it out.

 

[Stefan.]

pre-ordered mine on amazon, i can't wait for it

 

[Jay.]

Midnight release for me.

Dragging my unfortunate sister along to Sainsburys for her discount too.

 

[iain187]

UT is poo. Let's add pace to every player we can hurrah. Yawn.

I will beat all challengers of course

 

[AK]

Game on.

 

[RDH]

UT is class. The only thing I play. Although 12 I had over a million coins so I was able to get the best players.

 

[Revels]

Let's add pace to every player we can hurrah. Yawn.

Iain can't defend. Iain can't defend. Lol.

 

[Mr Pants]

XBL demo rolling out now apparently. According to EA on Twitter anyway.

 

[Scutch]

Yeah, it's live.

 

[Revels]

Easy, Martin Tyler ^^

It's good. Does seem a touch slower but players are definitely more intelligent and making runs when they should.

Looks great too.

Skill games in the load screen is great too. Love these already.

 

[Jay.S]

What are the skill games? are they like the hit the targets etc